What Just Happened at the Ballot? With Eli Lake and Alana Newhouse

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

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With Donald Trump slated to return to the White House after a truly historic upset, many Americans are feeling joyful and many others bereft. Both may be missing the point, which is that change, in America, often comes by precisely in a string of revolutions, tearing down old and crumbling institutions and replacing them with ones better geared to serve the needs of their constituents. Free Press columnist Eli Lake joins Liel to deliver a quick and insightful recap of what happened on Tuesday and what it means for Democrats, Republicans, Israel, the media, and everybody else. And Tablet's Editor in Chief Alana Newhouse delivers a master class on why everyone, regardless of party affiliation, should feel tremendously hopeful about America's future.

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0:00.0	Friends, it gives me tremendous joy to talk to you about one of the most astonishing books I have read in a very long time, also written by my dear friend and a man I admire so deeply, Bernard Henri Levy, the world-famous philosopher.
0:21.9	Weaving in 50 years of experience with Israel, Bernard analyzes global responses to October 7th
0:28.9	and explains the new and virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world, anti-Semitism.
0:35.1	He talks about why Israel is waging this existential war against
0:39.0	barbarism alone and what's at stake not only for Israel but for the rest of the world.
0:45.2	Bernard-A-Livis Israel alone is a passionate and outraged creed occur about the loneliness of
0:50.6	Israel, about the tragedy of October 7 7th and about what Bernard witnessed when he
0:55.0	landed in Israel the day after the pogroms. If you're looking for a book to educate you,
1:00.3	inspire you, and give you hope for the future of our fight, this is the one. Bernard-Hen-R-Livis,
1:07.6	Israel-ul-Laviz, Israel alone.
1:34.0	Hey there, and welcome back to Routless, the show that wants the truth, the whole truth, and, you know, nothing but.
1:44.3	It's Wednesday afternoon as I record this. I haven't slept in two days, nor it seems, consumed a non-alcoholic beverage in at least that long.
1:49.5	And like all Americans, I'm still processing the truly stunning victory of Donald Trump.
1:50.7	How stunning?
1:55.3	You probably know by now, but it's fresh enough and bears repeating.
1:59.4	So here's my favorite factoid from this wild election night. The New York Times analyzed return data and found
2:02.4	that Trump improved on his 2020 margin in 2,367 counties with his margin decreasing in only 240
2:11.7	counties. But here's a truly stunning bit. Trump improved his performance in every single kind of county you can
2:19.7	imagine. Urban counties, he did better into those than he did in 2020 by 5.2 points. Suburban counties,
2:27.4	where we were told for weeks, Kamala Harris would attract a lot of suburban moms who tell their
2:32.6	jerk, oppressive husbands that they're all in for Trump, but secretly will vote for the lady.
2:38.1	Trump improved there by 4.3 points. Counties that were more than 90% white, a 2.5 point improvement.
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